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Taxonomy
Potamotherium hasnoti was named by Pilgrim (1913). Its type specimen is GSI-D 135, a set of teeth ( right mandibular ramus contain- ing p4 and m1), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Vishnuictis hasnoti by Sankhyan et al. (2025).
It was recombined as Vishnuictis hasnoti by Sankhyan et al. (2025).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1913 | Potamotherium hasnoti Pilgrim |
| 2025 | Vishnuictis hasnoti Sankhyan et al. p. 13 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Potamotherium hasnoti Pilgrim 1913
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| A. R. Sankhyan et al. 2025 | Vishnuictis (as defined by Werdelin and Pei-
gné 2010) with stoutly built mandible, deeper than the length of m1; m1 broadest in the middle, tapering mesially (ante- riorly); with talonid only two-thirds the mesiodistal length of the trigonid and much narrower; protoconid extremely high; paraconid much lower; metaconid lower than para- conid, situated on the same level as the protoconid and partially connected to it by a transverse ridge; talonid not basin-shaped, with a low, crenulated, somewhat trenchant hypoconid; entoconid rim not markedly developed except at the extreme distolingual (posterolingual) corner; p4 rather elongate, more than two-thirds the length of m1 with a high main cuspid, a rudimentary mesial cuspid, a distinct posterior cuspid and a strong distal cingulum particularly prominent at the distolingual (posterolingual) corner (see Pilgrim 1932). |